May 20, 2013
Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov
Josh Byerly
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
josh.byerly@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-083
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION PROGRAM, SCIENCE BRIEFING SET
HOUSTON -- NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a news
conference and social media event at 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT)
Wednesday, May 22, to preview the upcoming Expedition 36 mission
aboard the International Space Station.
NASA Television and the agency's website will carry the briefings
live. Social media followers, who will be at Johnson for a NASA
Social focusing on scientific research aboard the space station, will
participate in the briefing and ask questions.
The International Space Station Program and Science Overview briefing
will cover mission priorities and objectives. The two expeditions
will involve increasing research on the orbital laboratory; up to six
spacewalks (four Russian and two U.S.); arrival of the next European,
Japanese and Russian cargo ships; and the maiden flight of the U.S.
commercial resupply vehicle, Cygnus, from Orbital Sciences Corp.
The briefing participants are:
-- Michael Suffredini, International Space Station Program manager
-- Gary Horlacher, Expedition 36 lead flight director
-- Tara Ruttley, International Space Station Program associate program
scientist
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and
European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano are scheduled to
launch to the station May 28 on a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan.
They will join Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy of NASA and
cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin, who have been
aboard the station since late March.
Nyberg, Yurchikhin and Parmitano will remain in orbit until
mid-November and will be joined in September by three additional crew
members, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal
Space Agency and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, who will replace
Vinogradov, Cassidy and Misurkin after they return to Earth in
mid-September.
For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For the latest information on the International Space Station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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